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Hereford Jrnl 24 Oct. 3/4: The stale trick of ring-dropping was practised very successfully.at ring dropping, n.
Hereford Jrnl 24 Oct. 3/4: The stale trick of ring-dropping was practised very successfully. Hereford Jrnl 16 Aug. 4/2: I must here meet my grave. / For my bacon I fancy I never shall save.at save one’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
Hereford Jrnl 9 Aug. 4/1: But why the dickens don’t the man appear?at dickens, the, phr.
Hereford Jrnl 9 Aug. 4/1: Madam squalls, the dogs bark, the Colonel roars, / And poor Pilgarlic was kick’d out of doors.at pilgarlic, n.
Hereford Jrnl 5 June 4/3: I can assure you our agent has purchased plenty of bely timber for the remainder of the voyage.at belly timber (n.) under belly, n.
Hereford Jrnl 2 Oct. 3/4: Molineaux was dead beat and only fought to encounter Cribb’s death-like blows .at deadbeat, adj.
Hereford Jrnl 2 Oct. 3/3: Cribb had again nobbed him [...] got his head under his left arm and fibbed until Black fell.at nob, v.
Hereford Jrnl 19 July 3/4: Smithfield Bargain [...] the intention of these disgusting bargains is to deprive the husband of any right of prosecution for damages.at Smithfield bargain (n.) under Smithfield, n.
Hereford Jrnl 3 Oct. 4/3: A Knight of the Rainbow [...] always in training at his master’s plentiful board, and being well blowed out, and having little work to do [etc].at blow out, v.2
Hereford Jrnl 3 Oct. 4/3: The whole was an attempt at cutting a swell by the ‘High Life below stairs’.at cut, v.3
Hereford Jrnl 3 Oct. 4/3: Lots of heavy wet, laid in small quantities among the kiddy grooms and swell Jarveys, depended on this event.at kiddy, adj.
Hereford Jrnl 3 Oct. 4/3: A Knight of the Rainbow [...] took the shine out of all the coves in his master’s neighbourhood, by threatening to serve them in quick time.at ...the rainbow under knight of the..., n.
Hereford Jrnl 4 Feb. 4/4: Keep off, for if you come athwart my hawse, blow my wig but I’ll cut your cables!at blow my wig! (excl.) under wig, n.2
Hereford Jrnl 16 Apr. 4/1: Brown, whose general ‘turn out’ was of superior character [...] Richmond being also attired in ‘flash togs’.at flash toggery (n.) under flash, adj.
Hereford Jrnl 19 June 4/6: Jack, [...] employing such strange expletives as ‘blow my eyes’ — ‘now blow my limbs’ — ‘now, blow me tight!’.at blow!, excl.1
Hereford Jrnl 18 Sept. 3/5: A corpulent lady of Cockneyshire, [...] a sort of female Falstaff.at Cockneyshire (n.) under Cockney, adj.
Hereford Jrnl 16 Dec. 4/5: They kept hailing each other [...] till they made everything out as plain as the grog-blossoms upon Darby’s nose.at grog blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
Hereford Jrnl 10 Oct. 4/1: Nor dare we, Sir, set at Defiance a Rule / By Bum-Brushers en-tailed on each Tyro at School.at bum-brusher (n.) under bum, n.1
Hereford Jrnl 30 Oct. 3/5: Several of the gentlemen [...] said that [...] no counter-hopper or clerk should become a member.at counter-hopper, n.
Hereford Jrnl 3 Feb. 4/6: Knighton Lock-Up [...] This wise policeman says that he found the two poor girls ‘in the exercise of their calling!’ Whether the same was exercised in or out of the lock-up he does not mention.at lockup, n.
Hereford Jrnl 24 Aug. 2/2: An authentic report on the sanitary conditions of the [...] class of bone-pickers, mud-rakers, people living on the produjce of dung-heraps.at bone-picker (n.) under bone, n.1
Hereford Jrnl 1 Feb. 4/5: Vy, everybody knows [...] a mountain pecker is — lor bless me [...] vy, a sheep’s head.at mountain pecker (n.) under mountain, n.
Hereford Jrnl 5 Apr. 4/2: Lee replied that it was queer fun, as the barrow had been taken away with a heavy load.at queer fun (n.) under queer, adj.
Hereford Jrnl 27 Sept. 4/2: The mouse was heard to warble from behind the wainscoting of its now fortunate master — a schneider (tailor).at schneider, n.
Hereford Jrnl 11 Sept. 4/6: ‘I cut, slashed, chopped, as if I was in the slaughter-house. I made “cold meat” of the sergeant’.at cold meat, n.
Hereford Jrnl 21 Oct. 3/7: [The bull] made a desperate charge at his mounted enemy, who tried [...] to come the artful dodge by manoeuvring about among the trees.at come the artful (dodge) (v.) under come the..., v.
Hereford Jrnl 25 Feb. 4/6: ‘Why don’t she get up and do her work?’ — ‘She is too feeble’ — ‘Law sakes, too feeble!’.at law sakes! (excl.) under laws!, excl.
Hereford Jrnl 30 Aug. 3/5: After applying to her a variety of epithets among the more noticeable of which was ‘Yellow-belly,’ he put his fist in her face.at yellow belly, n.
Hereford Jrnl 11 Apr. 4/2: As two would-be wits were pushing along in their gig to Brighton on the first of April they overtook a clodepate tramping along and [...] determined to ‘fool’ him.at clodpate, n.
Hereford Jrnl 26 Sept. 4/3: He accordingly placed it at the disposal of the Bishop of london, together with another hundred pounds for the other side of the water, Southwark.at water, the, n.
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